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Posted by ++ on November 28, 2007, 12:31 pm
Michael Bulatovich wrote:
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>>Princess trees from China have already taken over. They grow fast like
>>weeds and the wood causes a horrid rash. He leaves have medicinal use
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>>Michael Bulatovich wrote:
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>>>..wait until this stuff takes over the forests:
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>>>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/science/20tree.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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>wow
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>http://plants.usda.gov/java/county?state_name=New%20York&statefips=36&symbol=PATO2
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>It's just a matter of time before it jumps the St. Laurence... or the falls.
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Different tree. Those are Pawlonias, first planted in the US by Thomas
Jefferson, and his original tree STILL SURVIVES!
The Pawlonia is excellent, beuatiful and has beuatiful, workable,
lightweight wood prized by Chinese and Japanese for wedding boxes and
other furniture and decorative elements.
Maybe I got the common name wrong. Will look for our pest tree.....
Virginia, where the Pawlonias first took over , there is a problem with
international poachers since the trunks go for upwards of 3 thousand
bucks per....
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